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Changshan Serpent Formation part 2

A space battleship more than twelve kilometers abeam drifted through the void: the Pythagoras.

Near Hermes’s base homeworld, Kirini—an artificial fortress planet bearing the name of the place where the god Hermes was said to be born.

「So Europa and Dionysos joined hands.」

Hermes made no attempt to mask his irritation.

「Dionysos was there, no doubt. He used the power to convert all things—nuclear transmutation—to impersonate the DefenseDome’s AI.」

「To proclaim himself the One God… Is he really a super-AI? Hasn’t he degenerated?」

Vasa hedged his words. The maneuverings of super-AIs were beyond his ken, but even so, this seemed laughably rash.

Hermes well understood what Vasa meant.

「Hard to say. I’m not sure myself. I consider forced concept-migration folly. At the least, those two need to go relearn European history. You can’t leap from Alexandros the Great’s eastern expedition—past the Roman Republic and the Gallic Wars—and land on the Roman Empire as a concept.」

「And what of